chatOAME is an artificial intelligence (AI) that uses the collective knowledge of OAME to frame replies with an Ontario focus -- it pushes hard on Growing Success, High Impact Instructional Practices in Mathematics, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), FNMI integration, many other strengths of our curricula, and OAME's Mission and Vision. It's meant to act like a colleague, a coach, a Vygotsky More-Knowledgeable-Other to help you improve your craft.

You notice maybe a 15 second pause before it gives you that first response? That's Ontario & OAME loading into the AI to get the answer right for Ontario mathematics educators. We push A LOT of Ontario mathematical knowledge into your first prompt to make sure your replies aren't being misled by American Reddit responses! 

You will find chatOAME verbose: it first answers questions broadly to give you a wide overview of your first question or comment; keep asking questions or clarifying and it will focus quite quickly. It is also very diligent on reflecting the best of Ontario mathematics education (umm, sometimes quite preachy), and will observe copyrights (so it will only pattern situations from textbooks, EQAO, and contests; it won't copy directly).  

Access to chatOAME is free and unlimited as part of your membership thanks to research project funding by OAME, and because we use the backdoor corporate route, replies are even cheaper even though we're using the best possible reasoning engine.

When you get a reply from chatOAME, if there's an equation that's important to the reply, you'll notice a green Desmos graph icon next to it. If you click on the icon, it will pop-up a window showing the graph of the function; if there are parameters, slides are usually provided (parsing math is never easy!). 

We want to thank Desmos for providing us with free access to their graphing tool! It's awesome support from one non-profit to another! 

One of our next goals is to include links to Polypad for objects in their collection -- if there's an external resource that members would find useful, let us know!

If chatOAME finds a Journal article (either Gazette or Abacus) that deals with the topic you're discussing, it will put the synopsis and link to the article at the bottom of the reply.

For over 50 years, our members have written a large number of articles sharing their expertise across a wide variety of mathematics and mathematics education (why don't you write one? Share what you know!). We're working our way backwards through our volumes to separate the articles so expect the matching to improve over time. (Articles summaries don't appear in your exported documents.)

If you click the EXPORT A WORD DOCUMENT button you get a downloadable Word document with the mathematical notation all changed into Word Equation Editor objects, fully editable by you, along with all the other text, images, links, etc. correctly formatted!  (Your humble programmer would point out that ChatGPT doesn't do that yet.)

chatOAME will generate Excel spreadsheets (ask it to do it by formulas, otherwise it will do the calculations off-screen and just put the results as numbers) or PowerPoints (specify the number of slides, and give a brief outline but it won't do designs; that's up to you!). Be sure to ask for a downloadable Excel or PowerPoint.  

Check out the chatOAME guide for more examples or sample prompts.

Google Docs has a non-standard manner of including mathematics, so at the moment, chatOAME will provide the full mathematics in LaTeX (the math typesetting language) and you will need to use a Google Docs plugin to view the mathematics correctly. The extension Auto-LaTeX Equations works well and is used globally for this purpose. 

Finding a way to do this automatically for our members is one of our top priorities! 

Thanks to the latest in math formatting, when you right-click a mathematics expression on screen, you are provided with a lot of accessibility and formatting options. 

We appreciate the work that the folks at MathJax have done to ensure that access to mathematics is as free and open as possible; another non-profit bringing value to the mathematics community. 

If the formatting ever doesn't render properly (streaming math across the internet and getting it formatted properly is hard ), try reloading the browser (F5 or Ctrl/Command-R)... you won't lose anything and it might kick it all into place.

We encourage you to give feedback! What would make chatOAME the best possible coach, colleague and assistant for you, while maintaining its focus on the highest quality mathematics education responses and valuing your privacy and confidentiality? We don't record any personal information; we don't know which member is using chatOAME.

Let us know: email oame.ai@oame.on.ca or use the feedback buttons after every reply you get.

chatOAME is also on TikTok and Instagram -- interact with us there! 

Try this linked activity with chatOAME: Using AI to Deconstruct Expectations. This will lead you (and the AI) into a deep dive on one (or more) of your course's expectations, with a lens on Ontario's unique approach to mathematics teaching and assessment, along with UDL, differentiation, technology approaches and FNMI perspectives. 

This activity was modified from an activity by the folks at The Principal Project.

explorAItion! returns! The collaborative virtual conferences explore the use of Artificial Intelligence in Ontario Education, running from September 2025 through April 2026 on a variety of evenings.

Each evening will offer a selection of 30- and 60-minute workshops between 7 – 9 pm. Workshops will be recorded so that registrants can access the entire proceedings during and following the explorAItion! 2.0 series.

The explorAItion! 2.0 conference is a collaborative effort of the member associations of the Ontario Curriculum Forum, of which OAME is a proud member.

Visit https://ecoo.org/exploraition-2-0/ for more information, dates, registration or to submit a proposal!  Use code exai2oame for half-off registration! 

We're here to help!  

Check chatOAME's TikTok or Instagram or our userguide at bit.ly/chatoameguide!

We're also open to hosting online virtual training -- if you'd like someone to walk you or your department through how chatOAME can help you on your professional growth, let us know!  oame.ai@oame.on.ca 

We'll schedule some afternoon and evening virtual drop-ins in September (once we know our timetable and extracurricular schedule). 

Keep an eye out for a chatOAME chat bubble on the OAME website www.oame.on.ca once you log in -- this will give you the opportunity to engage with a thought partner on every page on the OAME website to build off of ideas or engage in a tête-à-tête with a more-knowledgeable-other. 

ETA: Middle of September